GOOD TO KNOW OUR LEADERS HAVE GOT THEIR PRIORITIES RIGHT
Posted by Caledonian Jim in Daily Posts
UK Business Secretary Lord Mandelson (pictured above) reportedly “went behind Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s back” last week in a last-ditch attempt to snatch the job of EU foreign supremo and abandon the Cabinet, it was claimed over the weekend. “Reliable” diplomatic sources claim Mandelson made frantic phone calls to prominent EU figures to try to persuade them to make him the EU High Representative responsible for foreign policy instead of unknown fellow New Labour politician Baroness Ashton. And when his bid failed he urged the PM to sack inept, incompetent Foreign Secretary David Miliband and give him his job. To be fair to Mandelson, leaving aside his ambition, sacking Miliband isn’t actually a bad idea. But to get back to the story.
Predictably, a tired, dispirited Mr Brown (above) and the PM’s office have made no comment. But the allegations have shocked New Labour Ministers, who had been told that Lord Mandelson had supported Baroness Ashton after his own candidacy – together with that of Mr Miliband and former Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon – had been ruled out. However, reliable sources say that Lord Mandelson made an astonishing second attempt to grab the job in the days leading up to last week’s EU summit. The sources said that he did so without informing the PM. All these “shocked” politicians – if they’re really shocked at anything Lord Mandelson is capable of, they shouldn’t be in politics because they’re far too naive and trusting. And it’s good to know that in the middle of the worst recession in living memory, with banks still not lending, unemployment rising, repossessions increasing and businesses going bust every day, that our leaders have still got their priorities right by wasting their time and our money acting like spoilt children by jockeying for position within a burning building.
Mind you, Lord Mandelson may be doing us a favour by highlighting the banality of the EU appointments. Just who is this Baroness Ashton ? The above photo was taken in 1982 and will help us. Partially obscured behind a group of fellow Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) activists, a mousy little woman in a crumpled anorak, top right circled in red, stands on the steps of 10 Downing Street. It is April 1982, and Cathy Ashton – CND’s influential national treasurer and a suspected Communist sympathiser – is demanding that the then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher turn back the British naval Task Force heading for the Falklands amid fears that it was armed with nuclear weapons.
Fast-forward 27 years to last week and Cathy cuts no less a banal and anonymous figure. Yet in political terms she has risen astonishingly. Cathy Ashton, or Baroness Ashton as she is today, has left CND and is now the European Union’s grandiosely titled “High Representative for Foreign Affairs”, serving 490 million citizens. She will receive an annual salary of £239,000 as well as a raft of allowances and perks that will net her an estimated £4 million in 6 years. It is an absolute scandal that such a non-elected nonentity can achieve such promotion. What gives this woman the right to represent us in foreign affairs, apart from the seedy patronage of Gordon Brown, himself another unelected nonentity ? The cynical, hypocritical, undemocratic, nauseatingly patronising, self-interest of New Labour just stinks.
Pictured above are former Hitler Youth and Nazi anti-aircraft gunner Pope Benedict XVI, together with the head of the Church of England, the Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams. In taking the unusual step over the weekend of protesting personally to the Prussian Pontiff about the latter’s shock announcement last month of special new arrangements for the mass conversion (poaching) to Roman Catholicism of disillusioned, traditionalist (that’s gay hating and women hating) Anglicans. A spokeswoman for Dr Williams said after their meeting: “Obviously the Archbishop expressed concern at the way things have happened. The Pope listened in a friendly spirit.” A statement issued by the Vatican, displaying its usual insufferable arrogance, described their discussions as “cordial” and, without referring specifically to the Pope’s initiative, said they had “focused on recent events affecting relations between the Roman Catholic church and the Anglican communion”. Is this bloke Williams a man or a mouse ? Why didn’t he just tell this German head of the biggest front for paedophiles on the planet to get knotted ? There again, Dr Williams himself might have retained more credibility with his deluded flock if he hadn’t spent the last 2 years trying to convince everyone of the efficacy of Sharia Law.
And while we’re on about the puerile insanity of religion, particularly within the Roman Catholic church, the late Pope John Paul II (pictured above) regularly whipped himself in a sign of “remorse for his sins,” a nun has sensationally revealed. This is the Polish bloke that used to kiss runways when he landed his plane; he died in 2005 and is currently being considered for sainthood by the Roman Catholic church – the ultimate accolade and a tribute to a “holy” person – provided the Vatican can find a couple of pious cretins who can attest to “miracles” he’s effected since his death – which of course the Vatican surely will.
As part of the Vatican’s ongoing investigation thousands of documents have been collected and examined by officials from the Congregation for the Causes of Saints. Among them is the testimony of Polish nun Tobiana Sobodka, of the Sacred Heart of Jesus order, who worked for Pope John Paul II in his private Vatican apartments and at his summer residence in Castel Gandolfo near Rome. Sister Sobodka said: “Several times he would put himself through bodily penance. ‘We would hear it – we were in the next room at Castel Gandolfo. You could hear the sound of the blows when he flagellated himself. He did it when he was still capable of moving on his own”. As of yet no-one within the Vatican has quizzed the nun as to how he received flagellation once he became incapable of moving on his own. But then again, these nuns are trained to be doctrinally versatile. It really is hard to believe that in the 21st century we’re still being fed this medieval bullshit – and even harder to believe that anyone with even an elementary education would be naive and brainless enough to want to convert to it.
Language testing (above). You’d think the procedure would be simple and easy. But in politically correct Britain these days, they’re REALLY easy. Immigrants who don’t understand English have been able to BUY language certificates that give them the right to settle in the UK. An investigation has found that staff at English language colleges in London and Birmingham have been offering migrants who speak little or no English Home Office-regulated English and Citizenship certificates for £250 each. Tests are rigged to allow anyone to pass. Staff hand out crib sheets with questions and answers in English. Others let candidates write the sound of English words on the sheets in their native language, so the answers appear right, but they don’t know what they are saying.
At the UK Learning Academy in Birmingham, a staff assessor told an undercover reporter that candidates did not have to take any courses or speak any English to pass the tests. The assessor simply asked if the candidate knew their own name, date of birth and address. When told that they did, the assessor allegedly replied: “That’s all right then. That’s a guaranteed pass.” Which raises 2 interesting questions : (a) Will those people who paid for their certificates now be re-tested ? And (b) What the hell were they doing even pretending to teach English in BIRMINGHAM, where even the indigenous population have never mastered the language ?
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